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튓

hangul syllable twis

Hangul syllable twis

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튓 writes one Korean syllable; by itself, it is not a complete message. In Hangul, syllable blocks spell Korean words, and the surrounding word supplies the meaning. Its history includes a debated proposal that another script influenced Hangul's design.

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What 튓 means

It spells one Korean syllable, not a message by itself.

Written as separate Hangul letters, the block contains ᄐ at the start, ᅱ as its vowel, and ᆺ at the end. Hangul fits those sound parts into one syllable block; the word containing it supplies the whole word's meaning.

Why was Hangul created?

Before Hangul, Korean writing used Hanja, Chinese characters employed in Korean, and Idu, a method of using Chinese characters to write Korean speech. Hangul was designed to make spoken Korean easier to write. Its creation was recorded in 1443, and the guide Hunminjeongeum was published in 1446.

The new script faced resistance among elites but came into broad use by the late 19th century; it later became the main writing system in both Koreas. A possible influence from Phags-pa, a Mongolian script, remains debated; that question concerns Hangul's design, not this syllable's meaning.

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How to type or find 튓

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Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType D293, then AltX to get 튓.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable twis”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType d293, then Enter or Space.
HTML
튓
CSS
\D293
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
튓
HTML hex
튓
CSS content
content: "\D293";
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URL encoded
%ED%8A%93
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes

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Families this belongs to

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols